13,000-Year-Old Footprints, Climate Court, Native Bees, Cell Phones And Cancer. March 30, 2018, Part 1
Planting tomatoes in the garden this year? Better hope you have bumblebees too, because tomato flowers need a good shaking to get the pollen out. “What the bumblebee does is grab a tomato flower, curv...
30 Mar 201847min
Climate Risks, Power Grid Security, Necrobiome. March 23, 2018, Part 1
A report issued last week by the Department of Homeland Security said that throughout 2016 and 2017, Russian hackers had worked to gain access to control systems at unidentified power plants and were ...
23 Mar 201847min
Dung Microbes, Gun Research, Airplane Germs, Kepler Mission. March 23, 2018, Part 2
Guns kill more people in the United States than alcohol—from homicides and suicides, to mass shootings like the one that left dead 17 high school students in Parkland, Florida last month. But public h...
23 Mar 201847min
Ancient Tools, Life On Mars, An Aurora Named Steve. March 16, 2018, Part 2.
Scientists have been trying for a long time to piece together a question: When did traits of modern humans—like complex thinking and behaviors—first develop? Anthropologists have uncovered tools in Ke...
16 Mar 201846min
Stephen Hawking, Women In Blockchain, Dinosaurs. March 16, 2018, Part 1
Theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking died this week at the age of 76. Hawking challenged and inspired a generation of physicists, and we remember his life and legacy. Plus, blockchai...
16 Mar 201847min
BRCA Gene Test, Bacteriophages, Synesthesia. March 9, 2018, Part 1
Overuse of antibiotics has lead to bacteria becoming resistant to the drugs. In the United States, at least two million people become infected with antibiotic resistant bacteria each year, according t...
9 Mar 201847min
‘Broad Band’ Computing History, Science Talent Search. March 9, 2018, Part 2
In the history of male-dominated computer science, there are a few women who have gotten attention and credit for their contributions. Famously, Ada Lovelace wrote the first algorithm designed for a c...
9 Mar 201847min
Chip Fraud, Space Station Future, Neutron Star. Mar 2, 2018, Part 1
Currently, the International Space Station is the only destination for astronauts traveling into lower-earth orbit. It’s also the only way for scientists to conduct experiments in microgravity. After ...
2 Mar 201847min
